Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American Chestnut Tree Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images From the northernmost reach of the White Mountains and Mahoosuc ...
American chestnut trees in West Virginia face an uncertain future. An orchard at the former Clements State Tree Nursery in ...
Old legend holds that a squirrel could walk from Maine to Georgia across a canopy of chestnut trees without ever touching the ...
In 1904, a necrotrophic fungus called chestnut blight began devastating North America's native chestnut trees. This fungus, brought across the Pacific on chestnut trees from Japan and China, attacks ...
Twenty hybrid American chestnut trees were planted at the Bronx Zoo on Monday as part of an effort to bring the once-prevalent tree back to New York City. The Wildlife Conservation Society joined the ...
Billions of American chestnut trees once covered the eastern United States. They soared in height, producing so many nuts that sellers moved them by train car. But by the 1950s, this venerable tree ...
The American chestnut was all but destroyed by fungal blight and logged as settlements spread west when the United States was settled by Europeans. But lately, it’s making a comeback. Endangered for ...
Scientists have a plan to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut to its abundant glory, and they need New York City residents’ help. The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to ...
The loss of American chestnut trees, Castanea denatata, ranks as one of the most devastating botanical disasters in U.S. history. Before the introduction of chestnut blight in 1904, there were over 4 ...
Before gim and kimchi drew attention as Korea's signature agricultural and seafood exports, there was a forest product that ...